Rightmove or Zoopla Page Views

[fialor]

Hi All,
Help!
I am trying to sell my house and its via an agency who have listed it on rightmove and zoopla.
I would like to see how many page views my house is getting or has had since it was listed, but I do not know how.

I have put the listings in the links below for those who are curious :-)

Zoopla Listing
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/43262137?search_identifier=0eb4dcb48d15f57a2f338876851b9a4b#8o65aX34UZXe6S7S.97

Rightmove listing
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65259620.html

Thanks for the help
Fialor
xx

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue
House is like a rainbow
Just like a rainbow
And a bugger to re-paint too.

Seriously, that's a couple of weeks work for a buyer to repaint it themselves or a proper chunk of change if they get someone in. They'd need to get it all done before they moved in cos it's not something most people could live with and just do a room at a time as they fancied it.

I think its really nice to see colour for once. The colours aren't dreadful at all. It looks like what it is a warm, loved family house. At the end of the day the most common reason a house is not selling is the price.

You absolutely have to view houses because it is the feel of them when you are looking round. Far too many people rely on on-line pics and turn down properties which may well suit them. Get out there and look everyone.

I don't think it all needs whitewashing - the kitchen colour is really nice and it's fine in the bedrooms too - but the orange lounge is too much for me (esp with the colourful suite) and I like colour. The yellow office also makes it look smaller than white would. Even just painting those rooms white would help I think. There'd still be plenty of colour for you but wouldn't put as many people off. Because so much of your house (e.g. bathrooms, kitchen) is really well done, it's a bit of a clash for it to then look like it's so undesirable (garish orange lounge).

Ps: maybe lose the purple in the dining room too. It's because of the colourful furnishings. It just gets a bit much and could get in the way of someone loving it. There's so much going for your house for a family - size, schools, garden, most of the style - that you don't want it eclipsing by a couple of 'ugh' moments that make people dismiss it.

There are some things that would put me off that you can't do anything about (proximity to the main road; there's nothing left for me to do to add value; the front view isn't particularly beautiful), and there are things like the colour scheme which you can change.

I wonder if the house is simply too big and expensive for the area, though? If you do the "see similar properties" thing on Rightmove, yours is the only house in a half mile radius between £650k and £800k. If you extend the search parameters to a three mile radius, there are five other 5+ bedroom houses in that price range, and all of the others have a real "wow" factor to them (on first sight at least!)

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE%5E1658251&minBedrooms=5&maxPrice=800000&minPrice=650000&radius=3.0

So unless I needed to be in your specific location for some reason, I would be looking at the others before I viewed yours, sorry

I just read that the market has slowed down in Cambridgeshire, so maybe you will need to drop the price to get people looking.

The colours will not be to a lot of people's taste. Many people don't want to do a single thing when they move so you're putting all those people off by the very first photo.

I don't think your photos are the best. Plus colour halts the eye rather than flowing through the area. Although neutral is boring it will show your space. The garden fence needs sorting too. It's not a cheap house so at that price a buyer will want to move in with nothing to do (e.g. Rep ain't strong colours, fix the fence etc). wimple has really highlighted some wow houses that you'll be on competition with.

Repaint!!! Not rep ain't... seriously spell check?

That's way more than a fortnights work to repaint. I have had a decorator in for three weeks 9-5pm and that was 3 small beds, one living room and kitchen and no bright colours to paint over.

Thank you all for the feedback - it's appreciated.

SnowGlobes BakeOffCakes OlennasWimple I hear you but for the area it's in, the house is actually cheap. House prices in Royston have been going up roughly 10 to 19% on average over the last few years. New houses in royeton, similar squarage, less garden father from town and good schools and station cost about 75-100k more.
I know new houses come with warranty and neutral colours 😊 but that is still quite steep.

PinkDelight yes it does have quite a lot going for it but no, it's not too big for the area it's in (at least I don't think so), similar properties abound but they rarely come on the market. Colour I agree is not to everyone's taste but hey I will leave it for the time being and see if I get any interest after adding to the descriptions and removing the summary.

Whatatododo that seems like a long time to paint to me. I had my kitchen, sitting room, all the corridors and 3 of the large bedroom rooms painted including skirting boards, doors and ceiling, and that took less than 10 days. Limited hours maybe?

The colours wouldn't put me oorf. I agree though, probably something to do with price. You sound a bit half and half about selling.

The colours like everyone else has said it just isn't restful. Also it's over priced, I imagine buyers are reluctant because of Brexit. A friend in here in London got an amazing £400k off a £2.3m house in the past few weeks, so be realistic, the market is not what it was. Do you really need to move now?

Meshletterholder we have made significant improvement to house, spent nearly 120k bringing it up to liveable standards, coupled with price rises the price is fair. We went with the medium of what the valuations came out as (5 EAs valued it).

LinaBo thanks for the guide, i found the figures. Quite useful - though i see between yesterday and today the figures are skewed due to the click through from mumsnet.

MrsMarigold unfortunately i don't have a 2.3mil house, otherwise i would easily drop 400k off of it 😃 (apples and pears in this instance I think). But thank you for the feedback - the pricing is a median from 5 EAs who valued it (all within 25k of each other bar 1).

Obviously your house is not a 2.3 million pound house, but that was Hampstead which is a market that tends to be quite buoyant. What I meant is 15% less is what I would expect to pay for a house like yours, having seen some of the other houses on the market in the area.

ah right fialor, then you've improved it and that warrants value.

It might just be the market, fewer people selling their house at the moment? I say this because we are getting so few listings in our area and a lot of listings have been brought back to the top due to a price drop.

Its beautiful, Id love it if it was in my area.

I'm also in the colours are too bright camp. I love the space the house has but the thought of painting every single room is an issue for me. I love decorating but prefer to do it slowly and with those colours id feel as though I'd need to get it done quite quickly. I like the overall style though.

I love the colours, if I was in the market in that area then it'd encourage me to look.

I'd remove the rugs, paint in neutrals and get new photos taken too.
The colours wouldn't matter to me at all, they're lovely but it's a fact that neutrals and a blank canvas attracts buyers, so if you want to sell quickly then this is what you do.

New build premium is 20-30%, it's like driving a new car off the dealer's forecourt, price drops the moment you move in. It's why I would never buy a new build.

Plus in new builds people usually get a guarantee, plus choice of wall coverings/flooring/kitchen&bathroom finishes/appliances, so it's a bit like being able to design their own home.

Outwith total boom markets, big developments of new builds usually depress the price of all the "old" new builds in the area-why run the risk of problems when you could have everything new and decorated to your requirements. So unless your house is period (1930s or earlier) you need to be about 20-30% cheaper than comparative new builds.

Ah MrsMarigold, thanks for clarifying 😊

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I think I will stop hogging the chat thread now.

How is everyone else doing with thier own buying/selling?

Your agent can log in to rightmove plus and email you stats from the site. Very easy to do. Ask them for their branch average to be included also.

Dailystuck71 thank you. I have asked for it so now waiting to receive it.